The Sources of Shakespeare's PlaysRoutledge, 04.04.2014 - 336 Seiten First published in 1977. This book ascertains what sources Shakespeare used for the plots of his plays and discusses the use he made of them; and secondly illustrates how his general reading is woven into the texture of his work. Few Elizabethan dramatists took such pains as Shakespeare in the collection of source-material. Frequently the sources were apparently incompatible, but Shakespeare's ability to combine a chronicle play, one or two prose chronicles, two poems and a pastoral romance without any sense of incongruity, was masterly. The plays are examined in approximately chronological order and Shakespeare's developing skill becomes evident. |
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... word ; and that he is guilty of shocking anachronisms . None of these arguments has much substance . It is true that ... words about the dead Ophelia - from her fair and unpolluted flesh May violets spring- ( v . i . 233-4 ) fit in with ...
... word ; and that he is guilty of shocking anachronisms . None of these arguments has much substance . It is true that ... words about the dead Ophelia - from her fair and unpolluted flesh May violets spring- ( v . i . 233-4 ) fit in with ...
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... words , Ye elves of hills , brooks , standing lakes , Shakespeare borrows Golding's precise phrasing . But it is equally clear that he also used the original Latin . Ovid uses the words ' ventos abigoque vocoque ' ; Golding translates ...
... words , Ye elves of hills , brooks , standing lakes , Shakespeare borrows Golding's precise phrasing . But it is equally clear that he also used the original Latin . Ovid uses the words ' ventos abigoque vocoque ' ; Golding translates ...
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... words to Romeo are more likely to come from Erasmus than from Boethius in Chaucer's trans- lation : 17 I'll give thee armour to keep off that word ; Adversity's sweet milk , philosophy , To comfort thee , though thou art banished ...
... words to Romeo are more likely to come from Erasmus than from Boethius in Chaucer's trans- lation : 17 I'll give thee armour to keep off that word ; Adversity's sweet milk , philosophy , To comfort thee , though thou art banished ...
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... words in the first scene of Measure for Measure . St Mark tells how a certaine woman , which was diseased with an issue of blood ... when shee had heard of Iesus , shee came in the presse behind , and touched his garment . . . when ...
... words in the first scene of Measure for Measure . St Mark tells how a certaine woman , which was diseased with an issue of blood ... when shee had heard of Iesus , shee came in the presse behind , and touched his garment . . . when ...
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... words which seem to be echoed by Shake- speare : But why cast I the effects of this vnnaturalnesse in thy teeth , seeing I my selfe was the cause ? I made thee a wanton , and thou hast made me a foole : I brought thee vp like a cockney ...
... words which seem to be echoed by Shake- speare : But why cast I the effects of this vnnaturalnesse in thy teeth , seeing I my selfe was the cause ? I made thee a wanton , and thou hast made me a foole : I brought thee vp like a cockney ...
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Romeo and Juliet | 38 |
Richard II | 46 |
A MidsummerNights Dream | 66 |
Loves Labours Lost | 77 |
Comedies and Histories | 86 |
Measure for Measure | 174 |
Othello | 182 |
King Lear | 196 |
Macbeth | 208 |
Timon of Athens | 218 |
Antony and Cleopatra | 220 |
Coriolanus | 238 |
Last Plays | 252 |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | 103 |
Much Ado about Nothing | 113 |
As You Like It | 125 |
Twelfth Night | 132 |
Troilus and Cressida | 141 |
Tragic Period | 158 |
Alls Well that Ends Well | 170 |
Cymbeline | 258 |
The Winters Tale | 266 |
The Tempest | 278 |
Henry VIII | 283 |
Notes | 289 |
Index | 315 |
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